CHATURBHUJ CHAKRADHARI MAHAVISHNU:
Chaturbhujah ‚Äď‚ÄúOne who has four hands‚ÄĚ. It is famous that Maha Vishnu has four hands and they carry the Conch, the Discus, the Mace, and the Lotus. According to the Puranas, these four are used by the Lord in maintaining Dharma among mankind. The ‚ÄėConch‚Äô calls man to the righteous path that directly leads to Peace and Perfection, the Divine Vishnupada. Very many of us in the enchantment of the immediate sense-joys refuse to listen to the small inner voice of conscience, the sound of the Paanchajanya-conch, and so He wields the ‚ÄėMace‚Äô and we come to suffer small calamities and tragic jerks in our smooth existence -communal, social or national. If still the individual is not listening to the call of the ‚ÄėConch‚Äô, the wheel-of-time, Chakra annihilates the entire. The call and the punishment are all only to take man towards his Ultimate Goal, represented by the ‚ÄúLotus‚ÄĚ in His hand. Subjectively Vishnu is the Self within, who manifests as the four-armed ‚Äėsubtle-body‚Äô to serve as the Eesa of the gross physical structure, in all its actions and protect it with existence.